Oliver Dalrymple

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Oliver Dalrymple (1830–1908) was an American bonanza farmer{{cite news|title=Wheat nipped in Minnesota|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R-pVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yUANAAAAIBAJ&pg=2995,4449179&dq=oliver-dalrymple&hl=en|access-date=9 February 2011|newspaper=The Philadelphia Record|date=29 August 1891|page=3}}{{cite news|title=What the Louisiana Purchase has become|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F6ZZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=okkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=7040,3367395&dq=oliver-dalrymple&hl=en|access-date=9 February 2011|newspaper=The Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph|date=2 May 1903}} and land speculator{{cite news|title=ENGLISH VIEW OF STEEL TRUST DECLINE IN AMERICA.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/11/08/105065598.pdf|access-date=9 February 2011|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 November 1903}} who grew very rich during his time in the 19th century. He was notable for his production of 600,000 bushels of wheat in one year,{{cite news|title=WHEAT BEGINS TO POUR INTO DULUTH|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/430834862.html?dids=430834862:430834862&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+09,+1891&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=WHEAT+BEGINS+TO+POUR+INTO+DULUTH.&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105132318/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/430834862.html?dids=430834862:430834862&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Sep+09,+1891&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=WHEAT+BEGINS+TO+POUR+INTO+DULUTH.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012|access-date=9 February 2011|newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=9 September 1981|quote=Mr Dalrymple will have about 600000 bushels.}} with one of the largest farms in the United States.{{cite news|title=Farm and Diary|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wbJCAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZasMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2805,6337583&dq=oliver-dalrymple+largest+farm&hl=en|access-date=9 February 2011|newspaper=Dubuque Herald|date=22 January 1885}}{{cite news|title=Big Farms in Dakota|url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Oliver+Dalrymple#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=ar:1%2Cnws%3A1&q=%22Oliver+Dalrymple%22+&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=1c3aa9ac7ce0451e|access-date=9 February 2011|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=20 December 1981|quote=I suppose the biggest farm in the United States is the Dalrymple farm. which is located in the Red River Valley, and which belongs to Oliver Dalrymple. ... (quoted, not in editorial voice)}} Its size has been estimated at 115 square miles,{{cite book|title=Knut Hamsun remembers America : essays and stories, 1885-1949|year=2003|publisher=University of Missouri Press|location=Columbia, Mo.|isbn=978-0-8262-1456-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ePEW1TkHcvIC&q=Oliver+Dalrymple&pg=PT68|editor=Richard Nelson Current|access-date=9 February 2011|page=57}} and was opened in 1875.{{cite book|title=Minnesota historical collections: Volume 10, Part 1 of Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society|year=1905|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v_47AAAAIAAJ&q=Oliver+Dalrymple&pg=PA21|author=Ambrose McNulty |author2=Daniel S. B. Johnston |author3=David Litchard Kiehle |author4=Edwin Bell |author5=George Clinton Tanner |author6=George D. Rogers |author7=George N. Lamphere |author8=Henry Shields Fairchild |author9=Joseph Woods Hancock |author10=Judson Wade Bishop |author11=Minnesota Historical Society |author12=Thomas Hughes |author13=Thomas Simpson |author14=William Wirt Pendergast |author15=Solon W. Manney |access-date=9 February 2011|page=21}} Having died in 1908,{{cite news|title=Obituary|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/544943942.html?dids=544943942:544943942&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Sep+05,+1908&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution&desc=Obituary+4+--+No+Title&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712192539/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/544943942.html?dids=544943942:544943942&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Sep+05,+1908&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution&desc=Obituary+4+--+No+Title&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 July 2012|access-date=9 February 2011|newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution|date=5 September 1908|quote=Word was received in St Paul last night that Oliver Dalrymple who was known as the bonanza wheat farmer of North Dakota...}} his farm was then passed down to his two sons, William Dalrymple and John Stewart Dalrymple.